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Topic: 3/14: Tornado hits downtown Atlanta, GA
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Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 03-15-2008 05:18 AM
   
Please pray for our friends in and around Atlanta, GA. where a tornado hit. Especially for Bob Mcleod and his family who lives outside Atlanta.Mike Z |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-15-2008 07:22 AM
Mike, that's so nice of you to be concerned. Everyone's OK and we missed the worst of it and had no damage. But downtown Atlanta took a hard hit, with many buildings damaged and over 20 people hurt. There were a lot of people downtown, being a Friday night, and it's surprising and fortunate that more people weren't hurt or worse. But the forecast is for more bad weather coming through today, so we'll be prepared. Bob Mc. |
Safecoat
Member Posts: 93
From: Austin, TX
Registered: Sep 2007
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posted 03-15-2008 07:50 AM
My thoughts and prayers are with those folks in Atlanta. Was there with my family and stayed at the CNN Center this time last year for Spring Break. |
James Brown
Member Posts: 1287
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-15-2008 08:06 AM
The tornado that hit downtown just skirted us afterwards. It was a little tense as tornado sirens went off several times during the night. My wife had been downtown all day at the World Congress Center and CNN center for a conference and had just gotten home when the storm hit the city. Scary stuff. Round 2 due to move in later today.James |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-15-2008 11:12 AM
Glad everyone is all right. With this being the solar minimum I believe this will be a busy season. Two Sundays ago around 8:30 p.m. C.S.T. Oklahoma City sounded our sirens three different times as a funnel passed over our downtown district. It was nine years ago when we had the EF-5 tornado here. We go through this every year most of the year. In my fifteen years at my present home, I have seen a half dozen or more funnels pass close to or right over my house. Our storm chasers here are some of the best and our local t.v. stations pinpoint storm tracks very accurately to the street. When we are under threat our weathermen are on it with helos and ground spotters with live feeds until the threat passes the metro and it diminishes. These gentlemen have saved countless lives around here.Terry |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-15-2008 02:26 PM
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Originally posted by Lunar rock nut:
With this being the solar minimum I believe this will be a busy season.
Have you any hard evidence, other than anecdotal, of a link between sunspots and tornadoes? By the way, we are past solar minimum. The next solar cycle is under way. |
Scott
Member Posts: 3307
From: Houston, TX
Registered: May 2001
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posted 03-15-2008 11:55 PM
Good to hear everyone is OK.Scott
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Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-16-2008 03:19 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Blackarrow:
Have you any hard evidence, other than anecdotal, of a link between sunspots and tornadoes? By the way, we are past solar minimum. The next solar cycle is under way.
According to this article we are just coming out of an early minimum. According to SOHO we have not reached minimum. My hypothesis is based and deduced on my personal observations only. If you would like more info. I would suggest you visit the National Weather Services Severe Storms Laboratory website. However here in Oklahoma city the documented outbreaks appear to follow the nine to fourteen year solar minimum cycle. Outbreaks have occurred in 1998-99, 1986, 1972-74. I was trying to offer some comfort not to open a debate. I do not claim to be the worlds foremost authority on anything. Terry |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-16-2008 07:51 AM
Has anybody heard from Gary Milgrom? He leaves just outside (inside?) the loop, so he was pretty close to some badly hit areas. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-16-2008 12:34 PM
Terry, first, it was not my intention to cause offense and if I did, I apologise. It's probably a bad idea to post on a sensitive subject when you're tired and about to go to bed. Second, when I asked the question I was thinking of the "Maunder Minimum" of the late 17th/early 18th centuries, when a lack of sunspots has been linked to a colder climate. If a clear link between sunspots (or rather a lack of them) and tornadoes can be established, that might help with tornado forecasts. No comfort for the victims of recent tornadoes, but maybe a useful research area for solar and meteorological experts to help people in the future. |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-16-2008 01:59 PM
No offence taken. I live with this threat constantly. I approach it with the idea of trying to understand the phenomenon. During May 3, 1999 and watching that whole ordeal on t.v. live just a few miles from my home was disturbing. In another instance one passed my house within less than 3/4 of a mile and the corners of my roof looked like the wing tips of a jet from condensation streams. Endured baseball size hail also.Hopefully Gary will reply soon. He might just be off due to a power outage. Terry |
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